Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures
Literary and cultural studies, from the Spanish Golden Age to contemporary cinema
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The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance [Hardback]
T. F. Earle (Editor); Catarina Fouto (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975769
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre. In the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, Germany and England, writers and actors experimented with new dramatic techniques and found new publics. The... .... Learn More -
Marie NDiaye: Inhospitable Fictions [Hardback]
Shirley Jordan (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907975851
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 38
At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967–) is the issue of the stranger’s welcome. NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices wh... .... Learn More -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? [Hardback]
Sura Qadiri (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975813
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Am... .... Learn More -
German Narratives of Belonging: Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century [Hardback]
Linda Shortt (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975882
Published by : Legenda
Series: Germanic Literatures
Volume: 4
Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post... .... Learn More -
Gadda, Beckett and Fractured Self-Narrative [Hardback]
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975998
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 29
While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction... .... Learn More -
Caravaggio in Film and Literature: Popular Culture's Appropriation of a Baroque Genius [Hardback]
Laura Rorato (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781909662001
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 30
Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter’s lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new m... .... Learn More -
Calderón: Jealousy the Greatest Monster [Hardback]
Ann L. Mackenzie (Editor); José María Ruano de la Haza (Editor); Kenneth Muir (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856683695
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
As the title indicates, Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Jealousy tragically dramatizes the same key themes and emotions that preoccupied Shakespeare in Othello. His portrayal of the mind and passion of King Herod, a ruler traditional... .... Learn More -
Calderón: Jealousy the Greatest Monster [Paperback]
Ann L. Mackenzie (Editor); José María Ruano de la Haza (Editor); Kenneth Muir (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9780856683701
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
As the title indicates, Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Jealousy tragically dramatizes the same key themes and emotions that preoccupied Shakespeare in Othello. His portrayal of the mind and passion of King Herod, a ruler traditional... .... Learn More -
John Ruskin's Continental Tour, 1835: The Written Records and Drawings [Hardback]
Keith Hanley (Editor); Caroline S. Hull (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781906540852
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fascination with geology found its earliest ex... .... Learn More -
Jorge Semprún: Writing the European Other [Hardback]
Ursula Tidd (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907747007
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprún (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in Fren... .... Learn More